Andrew Lycett

Amusing Queen Victoria

The young queen was enchanted with the American dwarf Tom Thumb and later gave the royal seal of approval to the display of fairground freaks

  • Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football: How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment

    Lee Jackson

    Yale, pp. 304

  • The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age

    John Woolf

    Michael O’Mara, pp. 376

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